Economic essays in honor of Wesley Clair Mitchell : presented to him by his former students on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, Wesley C. (Wesley Clair), 1874-1948.

Mitchell, Wesley C.

Economics.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 519 pages, 1 leaf : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1935.

Contents:

Recent efforts of the Federal Government in the field of low-rental housing, by A. Achinstein.

Genesis and import of the collective-bargaining provisions of the Recovery act, by P.F. Brissenden.

Long cycles in residential construction, by A.F. Burns.

Purchasing power of the masses and business depressions, by P.H. Douglas.

Obstacles to the statistical approach in economics and the social sciences with special reference to England, by P.S. Florence.

The Marxian right to the whole product, by A.L. Harris.

Some reflections on retail prices, by O.W. Knauth.

Relation between capital goods and finished products in the business cycle, by S. Kuznets.

Some basic problems in index-number theory, by E.E. Lewis.

Urban decentralization, by R.J. McFall.

Some aspects of economic planning, by P.W. Martin.

On the changing structure of economic life, by F.C. Mills.

The rôle of the middle class in social development: fascism, populism, communism, socialism, by D.J. Saposs.

Notes:

--On the current skepticism toward systematic economics, by Horace Taylor.--Economic and social aspects of internal migrations: an exploratory study of selected Swedish communities, by Dorothy S. Thomas.--The problem of overcapacity, by W.L. Thorp.--Plateaus of prosperity and plains of depression, by Clark Warburton.

OCLC:

869517